Providence

Famous quotes containing the word providence:

    “What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “I don’t believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.”
    —Max Frisch (1911–1991)

    “No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodigality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)